172 - Growth v staying small

March 26, 2020 00:45:13
172 - Growth v staying small
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172 - Growth v staying small

Mar 26 2020 | 00:45:13

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Debate - Growth v staying small

This week's discussion is a debate David and I have wanted to have from some time about business approaches.

Setting up the Debate

There’s many types of businesses providing websites and marketing to many different client types. We have self-employed freelancers seeing it more as their vocation or as a side gig. Then we have large Agencies with teams of specialists, designers, UX experts, frontend and backend developers, project manager and a whole load more.

Anyone who knows us we know we are really the former. Why the debate?

Probably because there is a general wisdom that self employed people need to think of themselves as a business and that business are expected to grow.

We are exploring whether this applies to those offering website services with WordPress.

So, somewhat arbitrarily, David is going to argue from the point of view of growth, and I'm (Nathan) will argue that we can stay small.

To summarise, these are the points that we bring to the table...

For growth (David)

For staying small (Nathan)

Clearly, we don't have all the answer, and it's also pretty clear that both of us have adopted the same 'stay small' approach, but it's an interesting debate nonetheless.

I have to say that I'm really enjoying these debate formats, they seems to bring something new out of both David and I as we have to think about a position which is often contrary to the one that we hold. I don't have to do this all too often in life and so it's allowing me to see things from the other side.

I really appreciate those of you who have taken the time to write comment and email about the previous debates, and would certainly welcome more of you to do that. If you're on the wpbuilds.com website then feel free to click on the buttons below this post and subscribe to our updates and join us in our Facebook group where we often carry on the conversation.

Thanks for listening!

Mentioned in this episode:

E-Myth revisited by Michael E. Gerber

Company of One by Paul Jarvis

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